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Freshwind Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$226k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Freshwind Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$226k0%
FY202410$301k0%
FY202313$197k8%
FY20229$111k22%
FY202114$226k29%
FY202013$165k31%
FY201912$198k25%
FY201810$131k20%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.3MHealth$210kInternational$155kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$10kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Worldwide Bible Society$425,000928%
The Church in Fremont$417,0007n/a
Asian Health Services$200,00090%
Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated$75,0008n/a
The Media Evangelism Association USA$71,00092%
Church in Burlingame$30,0001n/a
Christian Song-Zhu Caring Ministries$27,000913%
Village Gospel Mission$27,00090%
Silver Lining Missions$15,00050%
Infocus Documentary Association$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Freshwind Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Worldwide Bible Society$425,000928%
The Church in Fremont$417,0007n/a
Asian Health Services$200,00090%
Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated$75,0008n/a
The Media Evangelism Association USA$71,00092%
Church in Burlingame$30,0001n/a
Christian Song-Zhu Caring Ministries$27,000913%
Village Gospel Mission$27,00090%
Silver Lining Missions$15,00050%
Infocus Documentary Association$10,0001n/a
The Church in Houston$10,0001n/a
Europe Campus Ministry$10,00011%
Luke Christian Medical Mission Inc$5,00021%
Chinese Christian Mission Inc$5,00010%
Tien Dao Christian Media Association$4,00011%
Cityteam Ministries$3,00010%
Northwest Chinese Church$2,0001n/a
Christian Leadership Institute$2,00010%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$1,50010%
River of Life Christian Church$3001n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($391k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Freshwind Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorldwide Bible Society: $425,000 over 9y, 28% of budgetAsian Health Services: $200,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Media Evangelism Association USA: $71,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetChristian Song-Zhu Caring Ministries: $27,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetVillage Gospel Mission: $27,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSilver Lining Missions: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEurope Campus Ministry: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLuke Christian Medical Mission Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChinese Christian Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTien Dao Christian Media Association: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCityteam Ministries: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Leadership Institute: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nehemiah International Service Incorporation NisCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis · Shp Christian Foundation · Nissi Foundation · Joshua Mission · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Freshwind Foundation

How much does Freshwind Foundation give?
Freshwind Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $226,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Freshwind Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (77%), Health (12%), International (9%).
Who are Freshwind Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Worldwide Bible Society ($425k), The Church in Fremont ($417k), Asian Health Services ($200k).
Does Freshwind Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Freshwind Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Freshwind Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis, Shp Christian Foundation, Nissi Foundation.
Where is Freshwind Foundation based?
Freshwind Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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